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OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future

The Hechinger Report

Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. By middle and high school, students are required to be able to distinguish facts from opinions, make reasonable arguments and back them up with evidence from multiple reliable sources.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Ifetayo Kitwala, an 11th-grade student at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore. Do they feel that way?

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STUDENT VOICES: Teachers put you in situations to make you stronger

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences in Philadelphia. What makes your school unique? Weekly Update.

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LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States: Summer 2022 NEH-sponsored Institute

ASHP CML

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

The Hechinger Report

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Lilianna Salcedo, a 10th-grader at USC Hybrid High School in Los Angeles. What do you plan to do after you graduate from high school?

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

In the book you include Emis school assignments on the great transition along with written feedback from her teacher. Emi struggles with a more straightforward history essay assignment on the climate crisis and the transition to renewables and turns it into something of an oral history, interviewing her parents.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Then we ran into an issue with the high school girls basketball team all quarantined. We’re still keeping kids in school. We’re a small, rural school. And boys basketball. And boys wrestling.